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John Burnside - A Summer of Drowning
Released: 09/06/2011
Random House
The latest novel from the Whitbread Poetry Award-winner is an eerie, Arctic-set mystery-thriller, laced with Norse legends. A young woman, brought up in the shadow of her artist mother on a remote island, begins to lose her grip on reality as she recollects the events of one terrible summer.
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Book Bag“Burnside takes his time to set the scene and his characters...” As you might expect, the stunning landscape gets plenty of descriptive passages from Burnside. I appreciated his poetic language here and couldn't get enough of it. I was less keen on the story and the plot though...
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The Scotsman“Fearful combination of precision and ambiguity...” Burnside's prose has been frequently praised for its clarity, poetic sonority and fine cadences. It is certainly so here...
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The Independent“Hypnotic from the start...” Burnside pulls us into territory that hovers dangerously near the supernatural, but he does it so adeptly that we can only gasp at the vision before us, and then watch it recede...
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